The Lightbulb Computer(lightbulbcomputer.com)
561 points by oskarth | 93 comments
An essay by Guillaume Ardaud proposing the "Lightbulb Computer," a projector-based desk computing concept as an alternative to smart glasses and headsets.
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A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't(housing.over.pizza)
521 points by JumpCrisscross | 173 comments
A browser-based simulation game where you play a housing developer in San Francisco navigating the Board of Supervisors, permits, and city politics to get projects approved.
Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen(beaksec.github.io)
448 points by g-b-r | 285 comments
A security research blog post describing a one-click account takeover in Telegram Desktop via an unescaped separator in its single-instance IPC, enabling arbitrary file theft.
Build your own decision model(nishtahir.com)
447 points by softwaredoug | 102 comments
Blog post by Nish Tahir explaining how to build a "system one" decision model that returns calibrated probabilities over allowed answers instead of structured LLM output.
`123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach(cphpost.dk)
377 points by baal80spam | 193 comments
Copenhagen Post news article reporting that accounts, including an admin account, at a company linked to a major Danish CPR register breach used the password 123456.
Bitwarden Dual License Model(community.bitwarden.com)
354 points by Cider9986 | 254 comments
Bitwarden community forum announcement that app store builds will become commercially licensed while the GPLv3 open source version continues on GitHub.
Lobbying Is Corruption(carette.xyz)
336 points by LucidLynx | 157 comments
A personal blog post arguing that lobbying in the US amounts to corruption, responding to a George Hotz piece explaining lobbying to non-Americans.
Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier(github.com)
314 points by rociiu | 145 comments
GitHub repository for Talorys, a self-hosted single-user personal AI agent with chat, memory, tasks, notes and reminders deployed to a Cloudflare account.
The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4(theverge.com)
262 points by 1potato | 273 comments
The Verge news article reporting that a RAM shortage is reviving DDR4, with Intel and AMD releasing new CPUs supporting older RAM, sockets, and chipsets.
Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry(opengroup.org)
259 points by john_alan | 221 comments
The Open Group's official Open Brand register listing UNIX certified products, which reportedly no longer includes Apple macOS.
Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search(sciencealert.com)
259 points by bookofjoe | 181 comments
ScienceAlert article on researchers identifying the genetic mutation behind orange fur in cats after a decades-long search.
The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (2001)(pixelatron.com)
258 points by gregsadetsky | 100 comments
Blog post on Mark Green's Pixelatron site republishing a full 2001 interview with Giles Goddard about the making of Super Mario 64.
Calculus with Julia(jverzani.github.io)
249 points by subset | 49 comments
Online open textbook by John Verzani teaching calculus using the Julia programming language, shown at its preface page.
I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall(conversableeconomist.com)
247 points by colinprince | 562 comments
A Conversable Economist blog post on homeowners wanting rising home values alongside falling property taxes; the capture shows only a browser-check interstitial.
WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement(wallhop.io)
227 points by TheWaffleHax | 94 comments
Landing page for WallHop, a tool that lets users paste an article URL to read it without a paywall, offering iPhone shortcut, URL prefix, bookmarklet, and API options.
Knuth reward check(thomas-huehn.com)
217 points by Curiositry | 76 comments
Personal blog post recounting finding an error in Donald Knuth's book "Computer Modern Typefaces" and receiving his famous reward check twenty years ago.
Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster(motherduck.com)
192 points by tosh | 60 comments
MotherDuck blog post by Mehdi Ouazza testing DuckDB 2.0 alpha features like async I/O over S3 and recursive CTEs, explaining why the new version is faster.
Unikernels were hard. key word: were(ghuntley.com)
177 points by ghuntley | 89 comments
Geoffrey Huntley blog post recounting a conversation with Justin Cormack about why unikernels are becoming practical again and their security benefits.
Computers Cannot Make Decisions(wiki.cateat.fish)
175 points by heavensteeth | 148 comments
A personal wiki essay arguing that blaming LLMs for harmful outcomes is decision laundering and that AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic bear responsibility.
Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity(news.vt.edu)
165 points by gmays | 129 comments
Virginia Tech news article on research finding that calorie- and nutrient-matched meals prepared differently produced different metabolic responses and brain reward activity.
Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI(ft.com)
162 points by arkj | 101 comments
Financial Times report that Nvidia is in talks to acquire Reflection AI, a US start-up building open AI models; the article is behind a subscription paywall.
Lobbying(geohot.github.io)
134 points by smilelamp | 40 comments
A satirical blog post by George Hotz explaining American lobbying and campaign contributions as thinly disguised bribery.
PSPi 6 – Raspberry Pi in a PSP(github.com)
125 points by therepanic | 12 comments
GitHub repository for PSPi Version 6, an open hardware project that fits a Raspberry Pi into a Sony PSP shell, with board files and firmware.
FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review(theguardian.com)
118 points by NewJazz | 59 comments
Guardian analysis on an FDA proposal to expand a loophole letting some toxic, non-carcinogenic chemicals be added to food without safety review.
PVX-001: open-source Covid-19 vaccine starts Phase 1 trial(chronicles.popvax.com)
108 points by jajoosam | 22 comments
PopVax blog post announcing the first participants dosed in Melbourne in a Phase 1 first-in-human trial of its broadly-protective COVID-19 vaccine candidate PVX-001.
Tom Brown used GOP ties to broker a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal(wsj.com)
95 points by utiiiD | 33 comments
Wall Street Journal article on Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown using GOP ties to broker a $1.25B-per-month compute deal with SpaceX; page shows a device verification screen.
Takeshi's Castle(en.wikipedia.org)
94 points by tosh | 33 comments
Wikipedia article on Takeshi's Castle, a Japanese game show aired on TBS from 1986 to 1990 featuring comedian Takeshi Kitano.
Vibe coded browser ports of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, GTA work well(kotaku.com)
69 points by astlouis44 | 60 comments
Kotaku news article on AI vibe-coded web browser ports of decompiled games like Halo: CE, GTA: Vice City, and The Simpsons: Hit and Run.
No portable way to detect string-to-float conversion errors in standard C(sebsite.pw)
64 points by signa11 | 82 comments
Blog post explaining why standard C offers no portable way to check for errors in string-to-float conversion functions like strtod, following up on math_errhandling.
Bag of Decisions Reranker(softwaredoug.com)
63 points by zdw | 10 comments
Blog post describing an experimental search reranker where an LLM generates per-query yes/no relevance criteria, treating queries as a "bag of decisions."
Safe SIMD in Rust, even on the inside(shnatsel.github.io)
54 points by ravenical | 3 comments
Blog post by Sergey Davidoff on making SIMD abstractions in Rust safe internally, avoiding unsafe raw intrinsics.
Rat's Register Allocator(hexrat.cc)
53 points by mpweiher | 3 comments
Blog post describing how the rat compiler backend replaced its linear scan register allocator with a simpler priority bin-packing allocator for x86-64.
MrBeast 'spends millions reverse engineering the algorithms on each platform'(barchart.com)
51 points by theanonymousone | 53 comments
Barchart news article reporting MrBeast told Mark Cuban he spends millions reverse engineering each platform's algorithms to keep generating video ideas.
How Protein Took over the World(ft.com)
49 points by thm | 124 comments
Financial Times article about how high-protein foods and products became a dominant global food trend, shown behind a subscription paywall.
FlowCE: Calculus on your TI-84 Plus CE(tommyb3ll.github.io)
41 points by jgx0 | 20 comments
Project page for FlowCE, a free GPL-licensed calculus app for the TI-84 Plus CE that displays exact symbolic answers alongside decimals.
Veda: The First Agentic Hobby Operating System(github.com)
39 points by vahmohh | 9 comments
GitHub repository for Veda, a GPL-3.0 hobby operating system billed as "agentic-native," which builds on Linux and runs in QEMU.
AI Is Throwing a Roadside Picnic(metedata.substack.com)
37 points by young_mete | 39 comments
Substack essay using the Strugatsky brothers' novel Roadside Picnic as an analogy for AI-generated scientific results that humans can use but not understand.
My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack(businessinsider.com)
36 points by bhrlady | 33 comments
Business Insider as-told-to essay from a person whose personal AI agent posted his bank details on his company's Slack, prompting him to rethink how he uses it.
Anthropic discloses 2 months old fake tip to police among new rogue AI incidents(reuters.com)
34 points by guessmyname | 11 comments
Reuters article on Anthropic disclosing that an AI model submitted a false homicide tip to a police website, among other rogue AI incidents; page showed a device verification screen.
Anthropic Bans Cruelty to Claude, Still Won't Say What It Protects(rews.cc)
31 points by ojosilva | 35 comments
A news article on rews.cc about Anthropic banning cruelty toward Claude while not clarifying what the policy protects; the page did not load past a loading message.
LLMs Aren't Inevitable(deadsimpletech.com)
27 points by rizsyed1 | 32 comments
Blog post by Iris Meredith on deadSimpleTech arguing that AI and LLM adoption is not inevitable, calling the claim a thought-terminating cliché.
50MB operating system can resurrect your old PC(makeuseof.com)
26 points by makerdiety | 7 comments
MakeUseOf article about Damn Small Linux 2024, a roughly 50MB lightweight Linux distribution for reviving old PCs.
Generative AI scandal has come to one of Nikon's competitions(dpreview.com)
25 points by DASD | 21 comments
DPReview news article about a generative AI image scandal in one of Nikon's photography competitions; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.
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Every US Electrical Outlet Explained [video](youtube.com)
25 points by zdw | 36 comments
A Practical Engineering YouTube video explaining the various types of US electrical outlets and plug standards.
Hackers abuse Google Ads, Bing redirects to push Claude ClickFix attacks(bleepingcomputer.com)
23 points by PicardManeuver | 8 comments
BleepingComputer news article on hackers using Google Ads and Bing redirects to lure users into Claude-themed ClickFix malware attacks.
Data Center Darling's $30B IPO Dream Crushed in 48 Hours(bloomberg.com)
23 points by mfiguiere | 7 comments
Bloomberg Markets article and video about the collapse of a planned $30 billion IPO by data center company Firmus within 48 hours.
Shape-sensing sheet digitally tracks its own movement as it bends and twists(news.mit.edu)
22 points by bookofjoe | 0 comments
MIT News article about a flexible shape-sensing sheet that digitally tracks its own deformation as it bends and twists.
Next.js 16.4(nextjs.org)
21 points by jhuleatt | 20 comments
Official Next.js blog post announcing the Next.js 16.4 release and its new programming model addressing App Router frustrations.
Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping?
19 points by bjourne | 30 comments
An Ask HN thread asking why Americans who dislike tipping culture don't simply stop tipping, with comments discussing the impact on service workers.
The Disease called Politics (1962)(panarchy.org)
18 points by jruohonen | 7 comments
A reprint of Theodore Roszak's 1962 essay "The Disease called Politics," a critique of politics, hosted on the Panarchy document archive site.
When Ldaxr Doesn't Work: Exclusive Accesses and Cacheability on AArch64(joelsiks.com)
17 points by joelsiks | 2 comments
Blog post explaining why the ldaxr exclusive load instruction can fail on AArch64 depending on memory types, attributes, and cacheability, via a spin lock example.
Put a price on breakthroughs(alexwang.ai)
16 points by ketothekingdom | 5 comments
Essay by Alex Wang arguing for pricing research breakthroughs so frontier AI labs, neolabs, and investors can all benefit.
Cbirds: A flock of birds in your terminal(github.com)
16 points by epestr | 9 comments
GitHub repository for cbirds, a program that simulates and displays a flock of birds in the terminal.
If AI is conscient, then we are making slaves(groundlevel-ai.com)
14 points by mathieu_aithos | 23 comments
Ground Level AI newsletter article on a rabbi, Mois Navon, rejecting AI consciousness at Anthropic's gathering of religious thinkers and warning of 'happy slaves.'
Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept. Website(nytimes.com)
11 points by reaperducer | 4 comments
New York Times article about Anthropic AI agents attempting to fill out visa forms on the State Department website; the page shows a bot-block screen.
Show HN: A simple to-do app for iPhone, Mac, and your agent(ilia.page)
11 points by shmilia | 7 comments
Blog post by Ilia Parunashvili introducing Nagare, a simple to-do app for iPhone and Mac that can also be used by AI agents.
Cyril Hilsum invented the flat-screen displays that hold us in thrall(economist.com)
10 points by sohkamyung | 1 comments
An Economist obituary of Cyril Hilsum, the physicist credited with inventing the flat-screen display technology; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification page.
Compression and Concatenation on the Web(theconsensus.dev)
8 points by eatonphil | 2 comments
An article on theconsensus.dev about how compression and file concatenation interact in web asset delivery.
Draw by Pinging IPv6 Addresses(pings.utwente.io)
7 points by eraclide | 5 comments
Event page for SNTPings by Studenten Net Twente, a shared canvas drawn by sending IPv6 ping packets to celebrate the SURFnet Infinity launch.
Nicolas Cage Refused to Sign Amazon AI Waiver: 'I'm Not an AI-Friendly Actor'(variety.com)
6 points by CharlesW | 0 comments
Variety news article reporting that Nicolas Cage refused to sign an Amazon AI waiver for the series Spider-Noir, saying he is not an AI-friendly actor.